In a conversation with MSN, Carpenter revealed making movies is the same no matter what budget you are able to get.

This is not a big film. It's not a special effects-driven, star-driven movie at all. It's a smaller film that maybe doesn't have the production value because we didn't have a big budget, but maybe takes more chances in certain areas.

Yes, when you have a bigger budget, you have a lot more stuff available: more people, more ability to utilize more cameras and technology. The biggest thing is that you have more time. Moviemaking is time. So on a big movie, you have sometimes months to shoot it. On a small film, you have weeks. So then the director sits down and says, "Well, how am I gonna tell this story that I only have 20 or 30 days to shoot? How do I do this?" So you devise a strategy and technique to tell the story efficiently and simply. That's the difference. One way of working is not better or preferable than the other; they're just different.

Part of the issues surrounding the genre as the increasing amount of sequels remakes, which Carpenter is partially responsible for, since his Halloween was been sequelized and remade and then sequelized again. While Carpenter seems content to receive checks from the productions, he didn't think any of the remakes of his work would be as good as the original.

On an artistic level? No. But this is something I've wanted all my life: to sit on my couch, and have somebody come and give me a check for doing nothing — for a movie that I was involved in creating years ago. It's a dream come true, I don't have to do anything! (laughs) It's all fine. It's somebody else's vision.

Whether The Ward becomes one of Carpenter's classics or missteps remains to be seen, though the movie is currently on video on demand before it enters a theatrical run in July. Yahoo has debuted the latest preview clip for the movie, which shows Heard attempt to escape from the mental hospital.